My local newspaper was also stupidly paywalled, but one day a civil prosecutor noticed they were a non-profit and paywalling was a violation of their tax exempt status. Within weeks they dropped the paywall but tried to brand it as something enabled by generous donors and not a legal requirement.
Well, one of the key problems is still shown: that farm voluntarily recalls the eggs. If the US still had relevant health and safety agencies, this should have been verified, and the culprit made to recall the eggs. But it looks like the offical powers are way too slow to protect the citizens.
Extremely likely under any administration that this would still have been a voluntary recall. Voluntary recalls aren’t really optional as they will quickly turn into legal proceedings and a court ordered (mandatory) recall. It substaintially reduces the company’s legal risk and monetary risk to comply with a voluntary recall. There’s a lot more nuance but just from the wikipedia for the way different types of FDA recall strategies work:
The manufacturers or distributors of the product carry out most recalls of products regulated by FDA voluntarily. In some instances, a company discovers that one of its products is defective and recalls it entirely on its own. In others, FDA informs a company of findings that one of its products is defective and suggests or requests a recall. Usually, the company will comply.
If the firm does not recall the product, then FDA can seek legal action under the FD&C Act. These include seizure of available product, and/or injunction of the firm, including a court request for recall of the product.
The threat of being made to recall them is one of the safeguards here the second the company is told by their lawyers they will lose a “voluntary recall” becomes inevitable. These companies will only get more… entrepeneurial about food safety the more the threats are taken away and the big one was always food testing.
The article in full:
Nearly 100 Cases of Salmonella Tied to Voluntary Recall of 19 Million Eggs
The voluntary recall included eggs produced in Texas and sold under several brand names in six states, the Food and Drug Administration said.
Midwest Poultry Services of North Manchester, Ind., said it was recalling eggs produced on two farms in Texas “as a precautionary measure. ”Credit…Tony Gutierrez/Associated Press
Alena Cerro
By Alena Cerro
July 24, 2026Nearly 100 people have been reported sickened with salmonella starting in November amid a recall of 19 million eggs linked at least to part of the outbreak, according to the federal Food and Drug Administration.
The 98 illnesses have been reported in 17 states, the agency said. The cases of salmonella were reported starting on Nov. 21, 2025, through June 30, 2026.
Those infected reported eating eggs before becoming ill, the F.D.A. said. It said that 26 people have been hospitalized. No deaths have been reported.
On Wednesday, Midwest Poultry Services of North Manchester, Ind., said it was voluntarily recalling nearly 19 million white-shell and brown cage-free shell eggs sold under several brand names at grocery stores in six states after samples collected at farms in Texas tested positive for salmonella.
As part of its investigation, the F.D.A. said it had conducted a “traceback investigation based on where ill people reported purchasing or eating eggs during the time frame of interest, and Midwest Poultry Services, L.P. was identified as a common egg source.”
The agency added that the company did not account for all the illnesses in this outbreak. “Additional investigation is ongoing to determine if there are other sources of illness,” it said.
The recalled eggs were produced and distributed between June 6 and July 3, with sell-by or best-by dates between July 20 and Aug. 17, the agency said.
In an emailed statement, Midwest Poultry Services said that it was recalling the eggs “as a precautionary measure.”
“Producing safe, quality food for those who eat our eggs is our highest priority,” the company said, “and this voluntary investigation and recall demonstrates that commitment.”
Here’s what to know.
Which egg brands are affected and where?
Here’s a list of all the products affected.The recalled cartons have the identifying code P-1950 or 0840962 printed on the side, along with a Julian date (a three-digit number ranging from 001 for Jan. 1 to 365 for Dec. 31) of 157 to 184.
The eggs were sold at Kroger supermarkets in Texas and Louisiana and at Brookshire’s grocery stores in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, as well as at smaller retail outlets, the F.D.A. said.
The recalled products include:
Kroger large eggs in cartons of 12, 18 and 60.
Simple Truth cage-free medium brown eggs cartons of 12, 18 and 24.
Brookshire’s large eggs in cartons of six, 12, 18, 36 and 60.
Country Morning large eggs in cartons of 12 and 18, and medium and extra-large eggs in 12-count cartons.
Midwest Poultry Services is not currently distributing fresh eggs produced at its Texas farms, the F.D.A. said.
What to do if you have the recalled eggs.
Consumers should not consume the eggs, which may be returned to the original point of purchase for a refund, the F.D.A. said.Where have the illnesses been reported?
The 98 salmonella cases have been reported in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and West Virginia, according to the F.D.A.Texas had the most cases, with 73.
What is salmonella?
Salmonella, which sickens an estimated 1.35 million people in the United States each year, is the nation’s most frequently reported cause of food-borne illness, according to the Department of Agriculture.Because the bacteria thrive in animal intestines, they wind up in animal feces — and then, sometimes, on animal feet and fur. That can allow salmonella to spread to other locations, including crop fields and food processing plants, where the bacteria can contaminate produce and packaged foods.
The bacteria can get on egg shells when hens lay eggs or if the eggs touch bird droppings after being laid. Salmonella can also contaminate eggs as they are forming inside the hen before they form a shell.
What are the symptoms of a salmonella infection?
The infection caused by the bacteria is called salmonellosis.Symptoms include nausea, abdominal pain, fever, diarrhea and vomiting. In extreme cases, salmonella can contaminate the human bloodstream and cause infection and severe inflammation of the arteries, endocarditis and arthritis.
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10 celebrities YOU DIDNT KNOW got FAT!?! Is free to view however. Encouraged even. Theyre begging you to find out.
Pertinent information? Fuck you pay me.
The FDA recall notice isn’t paywalled (yet).
He’s going to truth social that and add an “investor early notice subscription” for 100k a year.
if the orange man hears about this…
He’ll probably think it’s the Federal Dureau of Anvestigation and tell Kash to fix it. By the time somebody deciphers his intent, we should be on to president #48.
Unless…
Thanks for linking that
No 3rd-parties, no lazy paywall.
Sounds like something the government should be doing not some private newspaper regardless of what we think the news should be.
Any time I complain about paywalls now I get an army of zoomers jumping down my neck about how people need to eat or whatever. They never knew a better time. I guess we’re just going to torch civilization so we can eat for a few more days
Firefox and the Bypass Paywalls Clean extension.
Gets you past most of the paywalls. Thing is, sites like the NYT have plenty of advertising, so just going on the site gets them paid.
Unless you also add uBO.
Basically ITT
That and life before tipping more than 15% was not the norm.
The NYT is a capitalist business. Why would you expect them to give you news for free when this is a perfect opportunity for them to exploit fear to get more subscribers?
Because the first 15 years online it was all for free and we all read much more news on their sites until they put it behind paywalls. Now we all get our news from memes. So that’s why.
Because they had ads to bring in income to pay the bills, which allowed them to give the news for free to the end user.
Then everyone started using ad blockers, killing that revenue stream.
They can’t give things away for free without something else paying the bills. That ends up being the end user with a subscription now.
Not sure if it was all ads. Like how some of the biggest eras of music coincide with pirating music. Maybe you can squeeze some subscriptions by blocking people but over time it isn’t sustainable. When you provide an easily accessible platform that people want to come to, you can leverage that to other sales, not just ads.
If it wasn’t ads then what exactly was it? If free with ads was working, it would still be free.
You claim you can leverage that to other sales but it didn’t happen.
NYT is publicly traded. You can see their revenue, costs and everything. They made 2.5B in 1995 and 2.8B in 2025. Factoring inflation they have lost half their revenue. That means half the reporters lost their jobs.
Forcing people to pay like they used to pay for paper is working:
It worked for NYT because they already built a brand and had established customers. For others it failed. The model failed more than it succeeded aside from some special cases
Ads failed and subscriptions failed too so they went out of business. The free news model was tried for many years and failed.
Someone needs to pay the journalists’ salary.
They’re all switching back to providing content for free which would not happen if it failed. Only ones who can afford subscription model are ones that already established their brand and even then some failed
Yeah it wasn’t entirely ads, but that was the major factor along with the transition from print to digital.
Things do still have to get paid for. High quality journalism means paying high prices for journalists. There’s server costs and other overhead. Early on people were still buying the paper. Ads covered being able to put it online for free and people buying the paper paid the real bills.
As print died, that killed the main revenue stream. That meant more ads to keep the online side free and make money. But more ads meant people get more turned off by them and start using ad blockers. That kills that revenue stream, so you introduce a subscription that gives access to everything ad free.
Eventually, you get to where we are. You want it, you pay for it. Which is really just back to buying the paper, but digitally. Back in the day you bought the paper. Either you yourself did from the paper machine, a street corner paper stand, or you literally had a physical subscription and got it delivered. Or you read it for free when someone else paid for a delivery subscription, like the doctors office, the donut/coffee shop, or your work put it in the break room.
There is currently a subscription reversal because the model failed for now than it succeeded. NYT is in a spot where it could succeed off its established brand. But others it didn’t work. The trend is the subscription model fails. Times, WP, Atlantic and others couldn’t sustain it.
Also I’m left as fuck, I don’t care if quality is good or the model work to help some faceless group of shareholders. I’ll support whatever destroys anyone putting up pay walls online. Burn it all down. It’s the only way.
You’re right but damn somehwhere along the way ads got so Intrusive and turned into a privacy nightmare. Also malicious ads that steal your bank info or infect your computer with viruses.
To the point where the FBI (the one from before when actual adults still ran it) even recommends to use an adblocker now.
I would never have cared about ads if they hadn’t started being targeted and the congregate data sold to government agencies so they can sidestep my rights and not need a warrant to track me.
Yup. Blame Google for that one. They built a trillion dollar empire on collecting data better than anyone else, and using that data to sell extremely targeted ads.
The NYT is a business. Why would you expect them to give you anything for free?
I fixed that for you.
Because profits don’t only come from subscriptions.
So is the problem that they are greedy evil capitalist, or that they are stupid people who don’t even know how to run a business to make profit?
I don’t know. But this doesn’t work
Give away for free + ? = profits. Got it, makes sense
NPR Guardian Vox
Vs
Tech crunch Time Atlantic
So much smarm for something you don’t really know.
So don’t read it. European news are better anyway. American news are nuts.
Go to reuters.com and compare with American news.
NYT is not high quality journalism though
If anything it shows for profit monetization eventually destroys every information stream. In NYT case they hired Bari Weiss who has gone on to turn news companies into right wing propaganda outlets. They’ve been a shitshow for a long time.
Its past time that every county in the US had like a gov funded local nonprofit newspaper to report on local events. Or even funnier make it funded by congressional district so gerrymandered areas get some weird ass shit.
Recalls are public information, journalism costs money.
Why would they sell cases of salmonella alongside eggs?
Bulk discount
News costs money to produce. The recall information is freely available on the official site. This looks like someone really wanting to latch onto something to get worked up about.
I bet if you put the same headline into any search engine, it will give you the answer without any pay walls
Advice right up there with “well if you don’t like it, just don’t buy it” and “why don’t you just ignore it?”
As if it’s not allowed to call out shitty behavior when you see it.
It isn’t shitty behavior to expect people doing work getting paid for the work.
Except this pertains to public health and safety.
Being paid for journalism is one thing, but critical information should always be free and available. While it is available publicly, that isn’t something they inform the reader of.
Given that NYT makes some articles available to readers freely, this should have been one of them.
You have conflated “free to the public” and working for free into the argument.
Yes it should be free to the public. But that requires a taxpayer funded journalism.
The workers who are already underpaid should not be required to work for free because their work is important. That’s incredibly regressive.
The information is free to the public on the FDA website. This is an article about that recall. You have no right to demand the labor of others for free, fascist.
I’d like to know the reasoning behind people downvoting.
You don’t think the lab worker who tested the eggs should work for free. Why should the reporter work for free?
Use Firefox browser, it has a reader mode button to the right of the URL which strips out paywall and just gives you the readable article. Or grapheneOS Canadium browser has accessibility view pop up when an article has paywall, and does the same thing.
I assume you mean vanadium but have never seen this popup… His do I enable this?
Lol yes. Under setting --> accessibility. Simplified.
